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It’s no news that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) is facing a difficult reelection bid next year. Still, as recently as Sept. 3, the Cook Political Report, a well-respected election handicapper, had the seat nestled snugly in the “likely Democrat” column.
But that was a week ago. Today Cook updated its map to rank Reid’s [...]

The Republican National Committee’s new ad — running in Arkansas, Nevada, and North Dakota — isn’t all that subtle. The Freudian takeaway words and images: Children, debt, “risky experiments.”
Why those three states? There are three Senate races between them in 2010.

Via Anne Schroeder Mullins, the Republican Renewal Project — Sen. John Ensign’s (R-Nev.) political action committee — is not being coy about how the senator’s scandal is affecting its fundraising schedule.

RENO, Nev. — The Democratic takeover of Washoe County, a longtime GOP stronghold in Nevada, has Republicans across the state reeling because it opens the door for Sen. Barack Obama to win the Silver State’s five electoral votes on Nov. 4.

Americans United for Change shares this ugly video from outside a McCain campaign rally featuring Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin yesterday in Henderson, Nev., a suburb of Las Vegas.

Yesterday’s raid on Nevada offices of ACORN reflects the increasingly aggressive Republican attempts to derail voter registration efforts among poor and minority voters.
As The Washington Post reported, the Nevada chapter of the Assn. of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN, had planned a potluck dinner at its Las Vegas office Tuesday night to celebrate [...]

Democratic voter registration is surging across Nevada — including swing counties where Republicans once held an edge.
Since 2006, Democrats have beat Republicans in new registrants by about 13,000 Nevadans. That’s a big shift for a swing state typically decided by narrow margins — for example, Nevada re-elected Bush by a slim 21,000 votes.